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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Chengdu or Yokohama?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Chengdu for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Chengdu’s own page.

Choose Yokohama for

  • beaches
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Chengdu 5, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Yokohama 72: Chengdu leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Yokohama 55: Chengdu leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Yokohama 44: Chengdu leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Yokohama 66: Chengdu leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Yokohama 60: Chengdu leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Yokohama 55: Chengdu leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Yokohama.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Chengdu
63match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Yokohama
64match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduYokohama
Official languagePutonghuaJapanese
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Yen (JPY)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119Police 110, fire 119
Elevation500 m24 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureChengduYokohama
City population20,937,7573,757,630
People per km²1,4568,585
Museums within 10 km1038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.